Date of Award

8-1978

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Education

First Advisor

Edward DeRoche

Second Advisor

Rosanne Schmidtlein

Abstract

In the light of the recent proliferation of courses at the high school level, it has become increasingly necessary to demonstrate the relationship of the English curriculum to other fields. Students want an immediately useful, functional course. To use an already overworked word, they demand relevancy. There has been a steady progression of new courses whose subject matter is designed to be more interesting to the student, but too little interdisciplinary work. New courses in all fields have often developed into specialties themselves and created the idea that the subject matter is somehow separate from other fields. If a course does not sound interesting and is not required, students avoid it, so the electives have striven to better their course titles and images. Required courses such as English have frequently fallen far behind. Even with a revamped image, English is still viewed mainly as a course involving reading, writing, spelling, and grammar, whose subject matter is literature. Cosmetic surgery such as new course titles, or more recent novels, do not change the feeling that English is not a part of other subjects. While teachers in other areas have shown a decided lack of concern over good grammar, punctuation, organization, and spelling, this has merely contributed to the compartmentalization in students' minds.

Comments

An Essay submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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